Family tree Van Loon » Wilhelmina Beneker (1894-1968)

Day of marriage November 16, 1911

• The temperature on November 16, 1911 was between 5.5 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
  • May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
  • June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
  • November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Day of death March 14, 1968

• The temperature on March 14, 1968 was between 3.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet De Jong, with P.J.S. de Jong (KVP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1968: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 12.7 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.
  • August 13 » Alexandros Panagoulis attempts to assassinate the Greek dictator Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos in Varkiza, Athens.
  • October 11 » NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission.
  • October 14 » Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds.
  • December 16 » Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.
  • December 26 » The Communist Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1965 » Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• 1968 » Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (b. 1892)
• 1969 » Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (b. 1898)
• 1973 » Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
• 1973 » Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1900)
• 1975 » Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)